For 2016, the new guide establishes a minimum salary of $32,167 and a maximum of $77,192 at “step 20." Additionally, the guide has a “captain” pay scale of $81,745 that represents a 1-percent pay increase over the last contract.

According to the contract, all employees at step 14 of the last contract move to step 20 under the new scale. That, too, is equivalent to a 1-percent pay increase.

All other paid firefighters would switch to a step closest to the one they were in 2015, but without a pay decrease. How many members are affected by that provision is not given.

For 2017, the city would increase pay 1.25 percent for members on step 20 and getting captain’s pay. Other pay steps would increase 0.75 percent.

For 2018, top scale and captain’s pay would increase 1.5 percent. Other steps would increase 1 percent.

For 2019, the respective increases again would be 1.5 percent and 1 percent.

In 2019, annual entry-level pay would be $33,059 with a maximum of $80,519. Captain’s pay that year would reach $85,269.

The tentative contract also freezes longevity payments. No one hired after January 2012 can receive longevity pay.

The contract also changes the overtime pay minimum for an off-duty firefighter called in for a working fire or an emergency. The minimum overtime to be paid would be one hour, instead of three hours, and then overtime pay in accordance with how long the assignment lasts.

FMBA Local 63's last contract expired at the end of 2015 and this agreement would be retroactive to Jan. 1, 2016. The new contract would be in effect through Dec. 31, 2019.